Training

Transformetics Training Foundations

These foundations are the key to your fitness results. Without them, the building falls. Whether you want to get bigger or smaller, these are the foundations that will get you where you want to go.

1. 100% Effort

Whatever median you choose to move through, give it your all. Take advantage of the time you have and push yourself to make the most of it. If you are walking somewhere, don’t take a shortcut. Headed to the grocery store? Don’t circle the parking lot twelve times to find the closest spot. Seek out opportunities to make the most of your movement. You made it to the gym? Fantastic – now focus on your exercises and use the time wisely.

Although any daily activity is better than wasting away on a couch, if you are going to get out and do something, don’t just go through the motions. This will ensure you will see changes in your overall health and wellness. Again, something is better than nothing, but truly great results and transformations in your body will come only through 100% effort and never through shortcuts and going through the motions.

Getting the most out of your training is about taking the path of most resistance. This is contrary to how most of live our lives. Most people are so use to taking the path of least resistance, there is almost a learning curve figuring out how to take the path of most resistance. This simple distinction is the difference behind real results, and wasting away time.

2. Shock and Trauma

Learn how to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Now that you’ve made movement a part of your daily life AND you are giving it your all the next step is to make sure you aren’t doing the same thing over and over. Although walking around the block may have worked for your fitness goals for the first few weeks, long term your body will stop being surprised by it. Our bodies are amazing systems that learn quite quickly what to expect. Therefore, there is a need to push yourself to the limits every now and then. In fact, the more you do this, the more quickly your body will change. Because your body likes you the way you are, it must be shocked and put into a state of trauma if you are to ever get it to change. The bottom line is we are in perfect shape for what we do on a regular basis.

We’ve all experienced this to a certain degree and the most notable experience is swimming. How many times have you slowly inched into a cold pool or a hot tub in order for your body to “get use to it” before you dive all the way in. Now if you jumped back and forth between that cold pool and the hot tub your body could never adapt to either temperature – it would be too shocked. It’s no different with fitness and exercise. Your body needs to be thrown off balance in order for activities to continue to be challenging, which in turn creates results.

3. Have Fun with It

Exercise and fitness are not miserable things. Whoever started that myth was misinformed. Our goal is to help people find a passion for their health, not because they need to look a certain way or feel a certain way, but because the overall quality of life improves when you are active. Pleasure hormones are released, your energy levels increase, your mental acuity increases – life just feels good.

One of the biggest contributing factors to your success in your journey to transform yourself will be how you view exercise – so start off with activities you enjoy. If you love to run, then get out there and do it. If you hate running but love to swim, find the nearest lake and jump in. If your couch has a permanent imprint of your hind quarters and nothing sounds fun, find the silver lining by realizing all the positive things that come from what seems like a horrible activity. There are dozens of ways to make the mental switch to enjoying getting out there and moving – find what works for you and hold on to it. Soon enough your body will start to change and in turn your perception and feelings towards exercising will change from something that is dreaded to something that is one of the best parts of your day.

In the end, if you’re not enjoying your training, you simply won’t stick to it. If you’re not deriving some sort of pleasure from it, your willpower will run dry. In order for healthy living to stick, we’ve gotta associate massive amounts of pleasure to it. This process starts by making whatever training you’re doing fun.

Transformetics Training Strategies

Transformetics has 3 categories of strategies. We highly recommend doing all three. If your focus is only on one, you will get 1/3 the results you could. Obviously the goal is to become healthy, fit, athletic individuals.

A. Body Failure

This category incompasses any sort of training that leads to a complete failure of your body. When you take your entire body to failure it stimulates the production of HGH and testosterone, which help improve overall fitness and delay the aging process. ATTENTION LADIES: your body will not, and can not, over produce testosterone. Here are some specific examples of how you can get your full body towards failure:
1. HIIT (high intensity interval training)
2. Caveman Training
3. Sprints
4. Martial Arts
5. Circuit Training
6. Crossfit
The list could go on and on. Body failure is simply about this: taking your body to the point where it can’t go on. Then you rest. Then you do it again.

B. Muscle Failure

Muscle failure is the key to building up specific muscles. Like body failure, this too stimulates the production of HGH and Testosterone. These are the fitness, health, and youth hormones and you definitely want all the natural goodness of them you can get. Muscle failure is about taking specific muscles to failure. For example, doing squats til you can’t do them any more is taking your legs to failure. This is breaking that muscle down to be repaired and come back stronger. This stimulates lean muscle development, improves organ reserve, accelerates fat loss, and increases energy.

C. Steady Movement

Steady movement is Transformetics code word for ‘cardio.’ Like the other 2 strategies there are specific benefits that are yielded by this type of training. Specifically it strengthens the cardiovascular and immune systems, promotes efficient fat metabolism and gives you a strong base to handle more intense workouts. Specific ways of getting steady movement could be:
1. swimming
2. jogging/walking
3. riding bikes
4. roller blading
The goal should be to get your heart rate up to a reasonable range. 65%-80% of your maximum is what we recommend. Your maximum is calculated 220-age. I’m 25. My max would be 220-25=195. So my range would be between 126- 156. Keep in mind these are just guidelines. They can be broken. Don’t be fanatical about it. But be aware that it does matter.

Ultimately, we are a species that was born to move; to walk, run, jump and explore. However, due to advances in modern technology we have shifted into a species that spends the majority of our time sitting down. Until quite recently – in the perspective of the human timeline – our ancestors had to move for everything they did ranging from gathering food to building a home. As our lifestyles and cultures have become more sedentary we have also seen a dramatic shift in the number of people who are obese and suffering from debilitating diseases and illnesses. We challenge everyone to make the shift back into movement; to change their sedentary lifestyle and shift back to our roots. Make movement a necessity in your life again through sports, recreational activities, exercising at a gym or simply going for a walk.

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